Geography
This chain of islands makes up the country of Japan.
What is the Japanese Archipelago?
Religion from India/China that influenced art and gardens.
Buddhism
Samurai with no master.
Ronin
This title was given to Japan’s military ruler.
Shogun
The divine ruler at the top of Japan’s feudal system.
Emperor
The largest island of Japan, home to Tokyo and Kyoto.
What is Honshu?
This Japanese religion believes in kami.
Shintoism
The curved sword of the samurai.
Katana
First shogunate established by this clan in 1192.
Minamoto clan
Powerful landowners with samurai armies.
Daimyo
Japan’s highest peak and national symbol.
What is Mount Fuji?
Red gates that mark a Shinto shrine.
Torii gates
This “way of the warrior” stressed loyalty and honor.
Bushido
Policy of closing Japan to foreigners.
Isolation/Sakoku
Lowest-ranked group that handled dead animals.
Eta
Sea separating Japan from Korea.
What is the Sea of Japan?
Drama with painted faces and big gestures.
Kabuki
Samurai ritual suicide to avoid shame.
Seppuku
1600 battle that gave Tokugawa control.
Battle of Sekigahara
Daimyo spent every other year here.
Edo
Only port open for foreign trade in Tokugawa times.
What is Nagasaki?
3-line poem with 5–7–5 syllables.
Haiku
Under Tokugawa, samurai were banned from this work.
Farming/trading
US naval officer who forced Japan to open ports.
Commodore Perry
Sun Goddess that the Emperor is descended from.
Amaterasu